Dick Meyer is the Chief Washington Correspondent for the Scripps Washington Bureau and the author of ''Why We Hate Us: American Discontent'' ''in the New Millennium''. He previously served as As Executive Producer for the BBC’s news services in America and Executive Editor for

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. Meyer was born in

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, a suburb of

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. He graduated from

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in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in religion and from the

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in 1982 with a master's degree in politics. Meyer began his journalism career as an election-unit researcher in 1985 for

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, covered the 1988 presidential campaign as an off-air producer, and filed reports for

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. He spent over twenty-three years at CBS News, eventually serving as a producer for the

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with

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and later, editorial director of CBS News online. In 2008, Meyer joined

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as Editorial Director for Digital Media and played a key role in expanding the organization’s digital journalism and integrating the broadcast and digital newsrooms. From 2009 to 2011, he served as NPR’s Executive Editor, with responsibility for managing NPR's worldwide news operation on-air and online. As Executive Producer for the

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’s news services in America, Meyer oversaw editorial of the

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and the US edition of

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. He also advised on the strategy and production of other BBC news content in the US, including its 24-hour news channel

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, and

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radio productions aimed at US audiences. Meyer currently works on DecodeDC, a new multi-platform feature produced at the Scripps Washington Bureau, and also writes more broadly about Washington. Meyer is the recipient of an Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and a Sigma Delta Chi

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Award. In 2011, Meyer received the Francis R. Stanton Alumni Recognition award from

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. https://www.nscds.org/podium/default.aspx?t=166109 He lives in the Washington DC metro area with his wife and two children.

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